Teresa A. Miller

Professor of Law

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Prisoners’ rights, immigration laws and their impact
on sentencing, the Attica prison riots, video technology in law
school classrooms

Teresa A. Miller studies the impact maximum-security prisons
have on guards and those imprisoned, researching her theory that
career correctional officers, administrators and civilian employees
“do time” and adjust to life in maximum security
environments in similar ways to inmates.

These adjustments include the effects of living in a racially
polarized setting with severe disparities in power. Miller produced
and directed the documentary digital film “Four Myths About
Attica,” which premiered at a conference marking the 40 year
anniversary of the historic prison riots.

Miller organized the conference, which brought inmates and
prison guard survivors together for the first time since the
country’s bloodiest prison uprising. Miller posits that both
inmates and prison staff must live with a legacy of prison riots
that irreversibly altered the landscape and culture of the modern
corrections environment.

CONTACT:

Teresa A. Miller, JDVice Provost for Equity and Inclusion, University at
Buffalo
Professor of Law, University at Buffalo Law School